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Christoph Wagner brings together the best of two worlds: Polymer, Google's framework for web components, and pandas. His talk, "Polymer with Pandas," will be given on SCALE 13x Sunday at 1:30. The SCALE Team, curious about what would bring Polymer and pandas together, took a few minutes to talk to Christoph about his talk.

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Peter Czanik, community manager at BalaBit, makes his SCALE 13x debut, speaking on syslog-ng: from log collecting to log processing and information extraction on SCALE 13x Sunday at 3 p.m. Peter took a few minutes to talk to the SCALE team about the help he provides to distributions to maintain the syslog-ng package, follows bug trackers, and helps users.

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Light sabers and physics: This is the talk you are looking for. Brian Proffitt gives SCALE 13x attendees "Why Scale Up is Like Star Trek and Scale Out is Like Star Wars" on SCALE 13x Saturday at 3 p.m. The SCALE Team beamed down to talk to Brian about his presentation.

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The details of how cryptographic algorithms are designed, implemented, verified, and assembled into cryptosystems require expert knowledge. Good thing, says Dustin Laurence, that fortunately, the big picture of how the resulting cryptosystems are used does not. Dustin's talk on Action-Movie Crypto will be given on SCALE 13x Saturday at 6 p.m. The SCALE Team caught up with Dustin to talk about this and Thai curry delivery.

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Joe Brockmeier says you can do one or the other: You can solve the package problem or make it worse. In fact, this SCALE veteran is giving a talk based on that exact topic -- Solving the Package Problem (or Making It Infinitely Worse?) -- on SCALE 13x Saturday at 1:30. The SCALE Team caught up with him to ask the either/or question.

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So, why exactly is the VLC icon a traffic cone? Ha, if you thought the answer was easily forthcoming, you have another thing coming. Ludovic Fauvet will be giving the talk VideoLAN, VLS and its distribution infrastructure on SCALE 13x Sunday at 11:30. He will divulge why during the talk. The SCALE Team interviewed Ludovic and here's what he had to say.

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Rich Bowen, who will be giving the Intro to OpenStack talk at 11:30 on SCALE 13x Saturday, plans to give attendees a look at how all the various moving pieces of OpenStack fit together. Rich took a few minutes with the SCALE Team to answer some questions about his presentation.

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Max Mether is giving a talk on Sharding Your Data with Spider. No, not with the arachnid, but with the Spider Storage Engine. The SCALE Team caught up with Max and asked him a few questions about his presentation, which is being given on SCALE 13x Saturday at 1:30.

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If you were to ask, "Which topic will be the most controversial at SCALE 13x?" Tarus Balog's "Open Source is Dead - And This May Be a Good Thing" talk would probably be up there on the list. Tarus gives his talk at 11:30 on SCALE 13x Saturday, and the SCALE Team caught up with him to ask him why he feels Open Source has no pulse.

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Over the years, Don Marti has never had a shortage of interesting material to present at SCALE. And SCALE 13x is no exception, as Don will regale us with tales of Showing Off Your Software with a Great Demo System, on SCALE 13x Sunday at 11:30 a.m. Rest assured that his presentation will be far more than one minute of setup and 44 minutes of Creative Commons photos, as the SCALE Team interview explains below.

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